Mangaluru: Two die, three survive, three missing in tug boat mishap
Mangaluru, May 16: Two persons have died and three crew members have gone missing in the tug boat-capsize in the sea, said Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) on Sunday.
The boat 'Alliance' capsized on Saturday.
Three people out of eight on board the boat have reached the shore and been put under the care of the authorities, said general manager (corporate communications) of MRPL, which had contracted the boat, Rudolph Noronha said in a statement.
Also, he clarified that another tug vessel Coromandel, which came under distress off the Kaup coast in Udupi district also on Saturday, does not belong to MRPL and it does not have any contract with the company.
Alliance belonged to Underwater Service Company Limited.
The company assists us under a contract to facilitate SPM (single- point mooring) operations whenever our crude cargo comes there through ships. On Friday, it had unloaded the cargo from one such ship and was supposed to return by the end of the day.
However, it started to move towards the port after due clearance on Saturday and underwent distress, the statement said.
MRPL has received information that there were eight people on board at the time of the mishap.
While three have survived by reaching shore, two have died and their bodies been recovered, the statement said.
The remaining three crew members are missing and details of communication with port and rescue operations shall be updated, Noronha said in the statement.
We are pained to inform that, one TUG vessel named Alliance, which belongs to M/s Underwater services company Ltd, with 9 of their men on board had faced distress today. This company assists us in Cargo unloading near our SPM and functions in coordination with port.
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Poll boycott in Chamarajnagar village: Govt officers, voter injured; booth, EVM destroyed by protest
Chamarajnagar: In an untoward incident reported from Indiganatta village under the Mahadeshwara Hills Gram Panchayat administration limits in Hanur taluk, government officials were injured as they attempted at pacifying a group of angry voters who had declared they were boycotting the polls on Friday.
Tahsildar Guruprasad and Taluk Panchayat Chief Officer Umesh and a police inspector were reportedly injured in the clash. In addition, the protesters are learned to have destroyed the polling booth, including the electronic voting machine (EVM), set up in the village. One of the voters who visited the booth was reportedly injured in the head in the incident.
Angry over the non-availability of infrastructure in their village, the voters in Indiganatta declared that they would not exercise their right to franchise on Friday. Guruprasad, Umesh and the police officer, who were informed of the boycott, visited Indiganatta to appease the voters and get them to cast vote. The group of voters, however, directed their anger at the officers, resulting in the trio being injured.
The protesters in Indiganatta were not only adamant about their boycott, but also infuriated by the sight of other voters in the village cast ballot at the polling booth. In anger, they initially had an argument with the voters but later forced their way into the booth and reportedly destroyed the EVM there.
Polling is currently reported to have been stalled in Indiganatta due to the violent incident.
